GLOBAL STABILITY OF SOLUTIONS WITH DISCONTINUOUS INITIAL DATA CONTAINING VACUUM STATES FOR THE RELATIVISTIC EULER EQUATIONS

The global stability of Lipschitz continuous solutions with discontinuous initial data for the relativistic Euler equations is established in a broad class of entropy solutions in L∞containing vacuum states. As a corollary, the uniqueness of Lipschitz solutions with discontinuous initial data is obtained in the broad class of entropy solutions in     

粘性依赖于密度的可压缩Navier-Stokes方程

The global existence of solutions to the equations of one-dimensional compressible flow with density-dependent viscosity is proved. Specifically,the assumptions on initial data are that the modulo constant is stated at x=∞ ＋and x=-∞ ,which may be different ,the density and velocity are in L^z ,and the density is bounded above and below away from zero. The results also show that even under these conditions, neither vacuum states nor concentration states can be formed in finite time.     

SPHERICAL NONLINEAR PULSES FOR THE SOLUTIONS OF NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATIONS Ⅱ, NONLINEAR CAUSTIC

This article discusses spherical pulse like solutions of the system of semilinear wave equations with the pulses focusing at a point and emerging outgoing in three space variables. In small initial data case, it shows that the nonlinearities have a strong effect at the focal point. Scattering operator is introduced to describe the caustic crossing. With the aid of the L∞norms, it analyzes the relative errors in approximate solutions.     

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF THE NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS

This paper is concerned with the large time behavior for solutions of the nonlinear parabolic equations in whole spaces R^n. The spectral decomposition methods of Laplace operator are applied and it is proved that if the initial data u0∈ L^2 ∩ L^r for 1 ≤ r ≤ 2, then the solutions decay in L^2 norm at t^-n/2(1/r-1/2). The decay rates are optimal in the sense that they coincide with the decay rates of the solutions to the heat equations with the same initial data.     

CONVERGENCE RATES FOR THE COMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS WITH GENERAL FORCES

For the viscous and heat-conductive fluids governed by the compressible Navier- Stokes equations with external force of general form in R^3, there exist nontrivial stationary solutions provided the external forces are small in suitable norms, which was studied in article [15], and there we also proved the global in time stability of the stationary solutions with respect to initial data in H^3-framework. In this article, the authors investigate the rates of convergence of nonstationary solutions to the corresponding stationary solutions when the initial data are small in H^3 and bounded in L6/5.     

Global Well-Posedness of the BCL System with Viscosity

The BCL system, a kind of equations governing the motion of the free surface of water waves in R3, is studied. Some results on the global existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions to such system with small initial data are obtained.     

Global Well-Posedness of Classical Solutions with Large Initial Data to the Two-Dimensional Isentropic Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

We establish the global existence and uniqueness of classical solutions to the Cauchy problem for the two-dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with smooth initial data under the assumption that the viscosity coefficient μ is large enough. Here we do not require that the initial data is small.     

GLOBAL EXISTENCE AND EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF SOLUTIONS TO THE QUASILINEAR THERMO-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS WITH SECOND SOUND

This article is devoted to the study of global existence and exponential stability of solutions to an initial-boundary value problem of the quasilinear thermo-diffusion equations with second sound by means of multiplicative techniques and energy method provided that the initial data are close to the equilibrium and the relaxation kernel is strongly positive definite and decays exponentially.     

Global Helically Symmetric Solutions to 3D MHD Equations

We prove the existence and uniqueness of global strong solutions to the Cauchy problem of the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations in R3 when initial data are helically symmetric. Moreover, the large-time behavior of the strong solutions is obtained simultaneously.     

Global Weak Solutions to One-Dimensional Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Density-Dependent Viscosity Coefficients

We prove the global existence of weak solutions of the one-dimensional compressible Navier-stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity. In particular, we assume that the initial density belongs to L^1 and L^∞, module constant states at x = -∞ and x = ＋∞, which may be different. The initial vacuum is permitted in this paper and the results may apply to the one-dimensional Saint-Venant model for shallow water.     

Convergence of the Lax–Friedrichs scheme for isothermal gas dynamics with semiconductor devices

In this paper we study the existence of global solutions to the Euler equations of compressible isothermal gas dynamics with semiconductor devices. We construct the approximate solutions by Lax–Friedrichs scheme. The convergence and consistency are obtained by using the compensated compactness framework for γ = 1. The global entropy solutions in L^∞ are obtained. We deal with the initial data containing unbounded velocity which is different from the isentropic case. Received: November 18, 2003     

On the existence and uniqueness of solutions to an asymptotic equation of a variational wave equation

We prove the global existence and uniqueness of admissible weak solutions to an asymptotic equation of a nonlinear hyperbolic variational wave equation with nonnegative L ²(ℝ) initial data. The work of Ping Zhang is supported by the Chinese postdoctor’s foundation, and that of Yuxi Zheng is supported in part by NSF DMS-9703711 and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows award.     

Energy Equality and Uniqueness of Weak Solutions to MHD Equations in L∞（0, T; L^n（Ω））

In this paper, we study the energy equality and the uniqueness of weak solutions to the MHD equations in the critical space L∞（0, T; L^n（Ω）. We prove that if the velocity u belongs to the critical space L∞（0, T; L^n（Ω）, the energy equality holds. On the basis of the energy equality, we further prove that the weak solution to the MHD equations is unique.     

On the uniqueness of time-periodic solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations in unbounded domains

We present a uniqueness theorem for time-periodic solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations in unbounded domains. Thus far, results on the uniqueness of time-periodic solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations in unbounded domain, roughly speaking, have only found that a small time-periodic L ⁿ -solution is unique within the class of solutions which have sufficiently small L ^∞(L ⁿ )-norm. In this paper, we show that a small time-periodic L ⁿ -solution is unique within the class of all time-periodic L ⁿ -solutions, which contains large solutions. We also consider the uniqueness of solutions in weak-L ⁿ space. The proof of the present uniqueness theorem is based on the method of dual equations.      

Relativistic Euler equations for isentropic fluids: Stability of Riemann solutions with large oscillation

We analyze global entropy solutions of the 2 × 2 relativistic Euler equations for isentropic fluids in special relativity and establish the uniqueness of Riemann solutions in the class of entropy solutions in L BV_loc with arbitrarily large oscillation. The uniqueness result does not require specific reference to any particular method for constructing the entropy solutions. Then the uniqueness of Riemann solutions implies their inviscid time-asymptotic stability under arbitrarily large L¹ L BV_loc perturbation of the Riemann initial data, provided that the corresponding solutions are in L and have local bounded total variation that allows the linear growth in time. This approach is also extended to deal with the stability of Riemann solutions containing vacuum in the class of entropy solutions in L with arbitrarily large oscillation.Received: October 21, 2003     

On the <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript> norm of spectral clusters for compact manifolds with boundary

We use microlocal and paradifferential techniques to obtain L ⁸ norm bounds for spectral clusters associated with elliptic second-order operators on two-dimensional manifolds with boundary. The result leads to optimal L ^q bounds, in the range 2⩽q⩽∞, for L ² - normalized spectral clusters on bounded domains in the plane and, more generally, for two-dimensional compact manifolds with boundary. We also establish new sharp L ^q estimates in higher dimensions for a range of exponents q̅_n⩽q⩽∞. The authors were supported by the National Science Foundation, Grants DMS-0140499, DMS-0099642, and DMS-0354668.     

The initial boundary value problem for Navier-Stokes equations

By making full use of the estimates of solutions to nonstationary Stokes equations and the method discussing global stability, we establish the global existence theorem of strong solutions for Navier-Stokes equatios in arbitrary three dimensional domain with uniformlyC ³ boundary, under the assumption that |a| _L ²(Θ) + |f| _L ¹(0,∞;L ²(Θ)) or |∇a| _L ²(Θ) + |f| _L ²(0,∞;L ²(Θ)) small or viscosityv large. Herea is a given initial velocity andf is the external force. This improves on the previous results. Moreover, the solvability of the case with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions is also discussed. This work is supported by foundation of Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica     

Semicontinuous solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations and theL ∞control problem

We prove uniqueness for extended real-valued lower semicontinuous viscosity solutions of the Bellman equation forL -control problems. This result is then used to prove uniqueness for lsc solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations of the form –u _t +H(t, x, u, –Du)=0, whereH(t, x, r, p) is convex inp. The remaining assumptions onH in the variablesr andp extend the currently known results.Supported in part by Grant DMS-9300805 from the National Science Foundation.     

The Cauchy problem for nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations inL q([0,T);L p)

In this paper the Cauchy problem for a class of nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations in the infinite cylinderS _T =ℝⁿ x [0,T) is considered. We construct a unique local solution inL ^q([0,T);L ^p (ℝ ⁿ )) for a class of nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations provided that initial data are inL ^r (ℝ ⁿ ), wherer>1 is an exponent determined by the structure of nonlinear terms andp,q are such that 2/q=n(1/r−1/p). Meanwhile under suitable conditions we also obtain thatu(t)≠L ^q([0,∞];L ^p (ℝ ⁿ )) provided that initial data are sufficiently small. This work is supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China and the Foundation of LNM Laboratory of Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.     

Existence and non-existence of global solutions for a semilinear heat equation

The existence and non-existence of global solutions and theL ^p blow-up of non-global solutions to the initial value problemu′(t)=Δu(t)+u(t) ^γ onR ⁿ are studied. We consider onlyγ>1. In the casen(γ − 1)/2=1, we present a simple proof that there are no non-trivial global non-negative solutions. Ifn(γ−1)/2≦1, we show under mild technical restrictions that non-negativeL ^p solutions always blow-up inL ^p norm in finite time. In the casen(γ−1)/2>1, we give new sufficient conditions on the initial data which guarantee the existence of global solutions. Research partially supported by NSF grant MCS79-03636.